Hook and eye.



'J. B. RUSS.

HOOK AND EYE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I5, 1915.

1372,857. Patented July 16, 1918.

wilbvwoou: y a gvwewtoz MEN 1;. Ross, on sHnLToN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORTo. ROBERT N. BASSETT COMPANY, or SHELTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION orCONNECTICUT.

' HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Continuation of application Serial No. 822,850, filed March's, 1914.This application filed June 15, 1915.

Serial No. 34,280;

To all whom it may concerm V Be it known that 1, JOHN B. Russ, a citizenof the United States, residing at Shelton in the town of Huntington, inthe county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Hooks and Eyes, of which the folposed between the prong and the open base portion when the device isanchored in passages'orfolds' in fabric material, especially in folds orpassages disposed along the meeting edges of garments, without resortingto the expedient of sewing other than that required in forming the foldsthemselves.

I attain these and other objects of my invention in the preferredembodiment thereof,

set forth in the following description and accompanying drawings inwhich like reference characters refer to corresponding parts. j"

In the drawingsi Figure 1 is a front view of my hooks and eyes in theirproper position in the folds or passages along the meeting edges of afragmentary portion of 'a garment, the upper portions of the fabricmaterial being broken Fig. 2, a view of the manner of assem-' bling thehooks in the fabric material before thelatteris folded to form a fold orpassage.

to inclose' the-base of the hooks, only one of the'latter being shown; I

Fig. 3, atop view of a single pronged hook;

Fig. 1, an end view of the hook shown in Fig; 3;

Fig. 5, a top view of a hook member having a plurality .of prongs;

Figs. 6 and 7, top and front views of one of the forms of eyes showing aplurality of loops or eyes proper carried by the base, and Fig. 8, a'fragmentary transverse section of the parts taken on line w-min Fig. 1.

Th fundamental features of my inveng tion are disclosed in myapplication Serial No. 822850, filed March 6, 1914, for improvementincorset fasteners of which the present application is a continuation.

In the present instance I have shown the meeting edges 1' and 2respectively of a fragmentary portion of a garment, the base portions ofthe hooks and eyes being wholly or partly embraced' between the layers 3and A of the reinforcing pieces 5, 5 respectively.

The bases of .the hooks and eyes are completely incased within thelayers 6 and 7 formed by folding the marginal edges 8 and 9'of an outerfabric a around the bases of the hooks and eyes respectively and sewingtheouter, fabric down close in back of the bases of the hooks and eyesby means of the stitches 10 and 11 thereby forming a passage which holdsthe hooks and eyes in place between. the layers of the differentfabrics. The edges '12 and'13 of the marginal portions 8 and 9 oftheoutermost fabric are turned in under and sewed down by stitches 14: and15 respectively to form a hem immediately adjacent to the stitches 10and 11. I have thus far described the hooks and eyes as being confinedwithin the folds respectively of only two layers of fabric, but it isobvious that the same may be confined in a like manner between aplurality of layers of fabric according to the nature of the garment orother article in which it is desired to anchor the bases of the hooksand eyes. Having now described generally the application of my hooks andeyes to a garment I willv proceed to describe the hooks and eyes indetail. Each hook is bent up outqof a single piece of wire to form arectangular anchoring portion or base 16 having the ends of the wireterminating on one side thereof and confined within a ferrule 17 toprevent'the base from becoming distorted when under stress. The wireat'the middle of its opposite side is curved upwardly and inwardly overthe space inclosed within the sides of the base to form the prong orhook proper 18; In a like manner each eye, if desired but notnecessarily, is also bent up out 7 of a single piece of wire to form arectangular anchoring portion or base 19 having the ends of the wireterminating on one side thereof and confined within a ferrude 20,

Y. but having the wire at the middle of its opposite side loopedjoutwardly and up- Patented July 16, 1918.

wardly away from the base to'form the eye proper 21. Of course it is notnecessary for eaclrbaseor anchoring portion of either-.-

member of thethook-and eyeto carry a single prong or loop slnce one basemay be of sufficient length to carry a plurality -ofprongs or loops, asis shown in Fig. 5 in which thebase 16/- is provided with a ferrule 17on one side and a plurality of prongs 18 on its opposite side. Aplurality of eyes proper 22 is shown looped outwardly from a single base2-3 carrying a ferrulefZ-fl on its outer side; While I have describedtheeye portion as beingbent up to have a like base tothat of the hookportion yet it will hereinafter appear that the eyesimay be made in anyother suitable manner as'long as theyare designed to properly engagethehook. To assemble the hook between the laye ers of the folded fabricsthe fabrics are first laid'down flat, the inner reinforcing piece 5 ontop of the outer piece a, the formerbeing disposed over the middle lineorline of fold b of the outer. piece. Coincident with, or adjacent to,this line of fold both pleces of fabric are slit atfpredeterminedintervals 7 25 to permit 'theinsertion therethrough of the" inwardlyprojecting prongs 18 carried by their respective basesas shown in Fig. 2in whichbnly one of the hooks appears. The two pieces of fabric 3 and ,6are then folded over atthe line of fold'b so that the base 16 wil1liewholly or partially within ing or otherwise fastening them tothe walls'of the passage. To assemble theeye within its fold'the fabrics are laidflat and slit and folded over and stitched in a like manner. Themembersv being assembled as above described causes the adjacent sides ofthe base of each hook and eye respectively to form long bearings whichwhenthe hooks and eyes are under stress press against the inside of theadjacent edges of the passages in:

which they are anchored, thereby giving a uniform' 'strain againstutheseinside, edges,

which assists'in keeping the hooks and eyes from turningortwistingwithin the passage; An yrtendency to move longitudinally withinthe slot 25, tlllfQllgh lWhlCh the prong-of the,

hookpasses, of a length substantially coincidentwith the width O fYthePTOI 'gR and where a plurality of bases are confined in oneipassagetheends of the passage may be closed and each base-abut closely against e'x ba s, h r y. omr t y'fillins ha passage from end to end the baseporfold isprevented by making the tionsi The base portionsof the eyesmay be"held from transverse and longltudinal movement ina like manner. Theopen space in the base of each h'ook, :taken together with the fact thatthe prong of the hook projects ba ok'wardly or inwardly over its openspace facilitates the manipulation of each hook strands of the wirewhich extend upwardly I from the base in forming the prong may be curvedslightly outwardly, expediency may require, since the impoi tant featureresides in having the extremity of the prong terminate over the openspace formed with} in the base and having no. part of the. deviceunderneath the prong which would prevent the'layer or layers of thefabric beneath the prong from being pressed downwardly into the openspace as above described. Forthe purpose of clearn'ess I have shownaslight. space between themeeting edges 1 andZof' the garment'in Fig-1,, but do not desire it to beunderstood that these meeting edges cannot be drawn tightly together: or to slightly overlap shouldthejengagement iof the'hook and eye be suitably located rela tively toone another to effect this-resultl- While I have shown the folds,.for,thei purposeof clearness, as' being forinedby fold: ng Q ayer babric ar nd he dj t edges ofthe base portions. of the. hooks and e r secti ely lde e' i e dis inctly understood that I may adopt'any suitablemanner of forming a passage for inca sing' h h ks and y s, b t mo e prtic lar y he ha k gtoo e'll lmqwn ii! t e ar to a qn re ny e ai ed lustr tien Althou h, Ii ave s n my' illve ti n dantedfw a as pa a e n grme ts yet? t e pe ific configuration of my hooks and eyes, and;

m r special y th ho ks, ha ar us- 1 en nt se fa ners a idefrom use 11 arnts l e' iieration of ben he loiop er ren ol h t it. willbe clinedupwardly maybe simultaneous with 1 that of rolling the ferrulearound'theeextremities of the wire forming thebasefpor- Hons..- Whilehe: uti zat n of. thes errules has a peculiar mer't, yet the dee we. migt b cope atiY should t slat bedi'spen'sed with and theegrtremitiesofilthe; wire left bare. Neither I l I v flee s easy; hrughp eferable to have th wextrem f he W r te m n ted mammals, of the."

a qk fith h s in e theyj ay r i ate almostanywhere in the skeletonformof the a evice; as; f r instance a -ti e emi 'ee the prongs. When it isdesired to engage the hooks and eyes to close the meeting edges of thepassages in the form of my invention above described, the base 19 of theeye is tipped upwardly at an angle so that its loop or eye proper maypass over the extremity of the prong 18. Since the distance between theunder side of the prong and the outer layer of fabric passingunder theprong is less than the diameter or width of the wire- Fig. 7.

While the arrangement illustrated and above described sets forth the wayin which I carry out my invention, yet the same is susceptible to suchmodification as may fairly come within the scope of the ap pendedclaims.

Having now described my invention what I desire to claim and protect byLetters Patent is:

1. The combination with a fold or passage in fabric material, of a wirehook for hook and eye fasteners comprising an anchoring portion incasedwithin and of a length greater than the width of said fold, the saidanchoring portion being provided with an opening and having abuttingsurfaces disposed in a straight line along. each side thereof, and aprong mounted on the outer side and passed through said fabric materialthe said prong being'ben-t inwardly and disposed sufficiently close tosaid fold to cooperate therewith when the said prong is engaged by theeye member.

2. A wire hook for hook and eye fasteners comprising an elongatedrectangular anchoring portion provided with an opening and havingabutting surfaces disposed in a straight line along both of its sides,and a prong carried by one of said sides and bent inwardly over saidopening whereby no part of said anchoring portion lies under said prong.

3. The combination with a fold or passage in fabric material, of a wirehook for hook and eye fasteners comprising an anchoring portion incasedwithin said fold, the said anchoring portion being provided with anabutting surface in a straight line along one side thereof, and a prongmounted on said side and passed through said fabric material, the saidprong being bent inwardly over said fold.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of thetwo subscribing witnesses.

JOHN B. RUSS. Witnesses:

JOHN U. Russ, JOSEPHINE W SULLIVAN.

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